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On some kites that all you get for a backspin. IT tends to be an artifact of a deep sail design due to the high angle at the wing tip but most kites I have tried will barrel roll if you add a little tension to the off hand line. I agree with Krijn though the flatter the spins the better they look. Just something about a super flat axel, 540 or backspin.

Any kite you can get to do a barrel roll recovery from a fade has the potential for barrel roll type back spins and the sea devil is no exception. You will just have to experiment with line tension to get what your wanting.

the back spins start at 4:55 in the video near the end. Off camera angle but he does get more of a barrel roll and with a bit more tension on the off hand line you would get the nose angle more toward the ground. Its a fine tension adjustment sometimes as small as the weight of your finger on the line.

Its possible but not easy to go from one to the other and back. THat can be kite dependant and so far the only 2 kites I have flown that I can do both on starting with flat and changing to barrel roll and going flat again are my Gemini and my Zephyr. Again you will have to experiment with your SD to figure out how. I know on some kites you start out flat but multiple spins become barrels rolls no matter what you do.

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